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Did anybody ever tell you a secret and ask you not to tell anybody else? That’s how a secret is supposed to work. But, the trouble is, it seems like nobody can keep a secret. So, before you know it, lots of people know about it. Then it’s not such a secret anymore. Would you like to hear the best secret ever? Good. Here goes…

About 2000 years ago there was a man named Paul. He was traveling all around telling the very same secret I’m about to share with you. The big difference was that he was sharing a secret nobody had ever heard before. In fact, there’s a place in the Bible where he called it a mystery. But this wasn’t a mystery to be solved by some smart detective like Sherlock Holmes. And it wasn’t a mystery to be found by a spy like James Bond. No, Paul wanted everybody to know the answer to the mystery. You might wonder how Paul found out about it. Well…

…Jesus told him.

Yep, Paul heard all about this special secret from the Creator of the universe. So…don’t you think there’s a good chance what he discovered was true? Of course it was. Jesus isn’t like you and me. He never lies. And He wanted Paul to go and tell everyone the news. At first Paul wasn’t sure if he could believe his eyes and ears. But Jesus proved He was real and that Paul could trust Him. Once that happened Paul was filled with joy and courage. He began to tell anybody who would listen about Jesus.

But Paul wasn’t just telling everybody what kind of a person Jesus was. He told everybody why Jesus came to earth. And why He had to be killed and rise from the dead. And the secret was that Jesus did all that so we could all know Him like a personal friend. God had kept that secret for thousands of years. Before anybody knew about Jesus, the only way to get to Heaven was to live a good life and keep a lot of rules that Jewish people knew about. But…

…nobody was ever able to keep all those rules. Some people tried. But they just couldn’t do it. They were just like you and me. We want to be good all the time, but somehow we just can’t do it. I know I can’t. Can you? Well, thanks to the best secret ever told…you don’t have to be good all the time. And you don’t have to follow all those rules from the Jewish people from thousands of years ago. No, the good news…and the secret…is this: believe in Jesus. He lived here on earth in the same world as the rest of us. And He never did anything wrong. And He kept all the rules. He lived a perfect life. And He showed us perfect love by taking our punishment so we wouldn’t have to.

Do you believe this secret is true? I hope so. And here’s a rhyme to help you remember…

The best secret ever told was just for youAnd everybody on the planet, too.Share the secret, let it out. Jump into the air and shout…Trust in Jesus and there’s nothing else to do.

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